Infrastructure Automation and Chef(Part-1)

Posted on April 29, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Infrastructure automation has become an indispensable part of IT industry today. But what exactly is infrastructure automation and why does it matter?

Back in the good old days expanding an existing infrastructure was a time consuming task, it would take weeks or in some cases months to procure the required hardware and additional weeks to configure it as per the need.

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Sample Questions for AWS Professional Level Solutions Architect Certification Exam

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Himanshu Sachdeva | Comments(5)

Here are some more Sample Questions for AWS Professional Level Certification Exam for Solutions Architect. Answers to these questions are given below with brief description. In case you require detailed answer or if you have any doubt please write it in the comments section below and I’ll try to answer it.

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Introduction to Azure Redis Cache

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Azure Redis Cache is one of the cache service offerings from Microsoft Azure. Based on the popular open source Redis Cache, it allows the user to have the best of both worlds- rich features and eco system of Redis plus reliable hosting and monitoring from Microsoft.

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Amazon expands Elastic Block Storage

Posted on March 24, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

As we know Elastic Block Store (EBS) is the block level storage that increases the durability and persistence of data for EC2 instances. It earlier provided storage size from 1GB up to 1TB.

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Preparing for Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(29)

AWS has launched a comprehensive AWS certification program. Lack of Certification from AWS was an issue in the AWS ecosystem, so the certification program is really exciting. I registered for the exam straight away and gave the exam today (05/08/2013).

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Shrinking An Amazon EBS Volume

Posted on January 19, 2015 by CloudThat | Comments(1)

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store Volumes are easy to use and expand but notoriously hard to shrink once their size has grown. Here are the steps for Shrinking any mounted EBS volume on EC2 Instances.

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Preparing for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Level Certification Exam

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Himanshu Sachdeva | Comments(2)

AWS recently announced their second Professional level certification exam that is little different from it’s previous professional level exam as the new one merges two certification tracks into one. Their Developer & SysOps Administrator exam at associate level converge into a single exam at professional level that is AWS Certified DevOps Engineer certification exam.

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Steps to convert UBUNTU-BASED PV instances to HVM

Posted on December 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(8)

My previous blog will help you convert Rhel-based PV instances to HVM.

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Auto Attach Elastic IP to EC2 Classic Instance For Autoscaling

Posted on November 14, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(3)

AWS has made it really simple to attach an Elastic IP to an EC2 instance. It is 4 Simple Steps using AWS console.

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What’s new in OpenStack Juno?

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

OpenStack Juno is now generally available. This is the 10th release of the most popular and hot Private Cloud offering out there. Here is a sneak peak into what’s in store in Juno.

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